Collectors’ Circle

The Collectors’ Circle is a congregation of individuals, businesses, and foundations that have gifted PAAM with works of art, enabling PAAM to increase our collection and tell the story of art across Cape Cod.

Adjunct to the PAAM Circle, the Collectors’ Circle recognizes those who specifically contribute to the growth and enhancement of the collection by either making donations of art to the Museum, providing funds of $5,000 minimum to acquire works for the collection, or irrevocably pledging a future gift of art. Members are listed in a publication and on the website during the year in which their gift is received or irrevocably pledged. Additionally, they receive an invitation to an annual event for collectors.

PAAM’s collection weaves together three major American art movements, focusing on Cape Cod’s art, history and landscape, and features artists who have lived, worked and shown here. The Collection creates perspectives that uniquely define the Provincetown art colony as a necessary and established foundation to the larger art world. By donating a work of art, you align yourself with established benefactors to PAAM’s permanent collection, such as PAAM’s five founders—Charles W. Hawthorne, Gerrit Beneker, E. Ambrose Webster, Oscar Gieberich and William Hallsall—who all contributed their own art to begin the collection of over 3,000 exemplary twentieth- and twenty-first-century works.